Specialist fields (in extracts)
- Vascular neurosurgery
- Skull base surgery (cerebellopontine angle, tumours)
- Endoscopic skull base surgery (hypophyseal adenomas)
- Brain tumours and brain metastases
- Degenerative spinal diseases and tumours of the spinal column and the spinal cord (slipped disc, spinal stenosis)
- Peripheral nerves
- Paediatric neurosurgery
- Craniocerebral trauma, spinal cord injury
- Neurosurgical intensive care medicine
- Neuroprosthetics
- Acoustic nerve neurinoma
- Neurofibromatis
- Meningioma
- Syringomyelia, hydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari malformation
- Facial spasm
- Trigemial neuralgia
- Acoustic nerve neurinoma
- NF2
- Syringomyelia, hydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari malformation
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
| 1984 – 1990
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Studied Human Medicine in Halle and Jena
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| 1990 | Medical license (Approbation)
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| 1990 – 1992
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Research Assistant / University Lecturer, Institute of Physiology, FSU Jena
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| 1992 – 1993
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Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, Department of Neurology, VA Medical Center, Martinez, USA
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| 1993 – 1999
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Specialist training in Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital, Hanover
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| 1999
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Board-certified Neurosurgeon
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| 2000
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Senior Physician, International Neuroscience Institute (INI), Hanover
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| 2002
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Senior Physician in a leading role in Neurosurgery at INI
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| 2003
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Habilitation ("Electrical Deep Brain Stimulation of the Cochlear Nucleus") and Venia Legendi in Neurosurgery
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| 2003 – 2006
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Senior Consultant and Deputy Director of the Department of General Neurosurgery, Freiburg; also Lecturer at the department
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| 2005
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Appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Freiburg
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| Since 2006
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Deputy Chairman of the Neuroprosthetics Committee, DGBMT (VDE)
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| Since 2006
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Head of the Skull Base Group Erfurt / Lecturer at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and TU Ilmenau
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| Since 2006 | Chief Physician of the Neurosurgery Clinic, Helios Hospital Erfurt
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| 2008
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Secretary of the Neuro and Head Center, Helios Hospital Erfurt
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| Since 2015 | Deputy Head of the Neuro-oncology Center at Helios Hospital Erfurt
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Memberships
- 2008 — Scientific Advisory Board, German Cochlear Implant Society (DCIG) e.V
- 2008 — Scientific Advisory Board, German Society for Syringomyelia and Chiari Malformation (Deutsche Syringomyelie und Chiari Malformation e.V., DSCM) and foundation of the Center for Syringomyelia at Helios Klinikum Erfurt, Germany
- 2008 — Scientific Advisor of the German Bundestag (TAB) to assess the consequences of new technologies in neural prosthetics
- 2009 — Scientific Advisory Board, Oncology Center Erfurt, Germany
- 2009 — Advisory Board of the European Skull Base Society (ESBS)
- 2010 — Co-Chairman and organizer of the 18th Meeting of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery, Erfurt, Germany
- 2010 — Vice Chairman, Medical Scientific Society (Medizinisch-wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V., MWG), Erfurt, Germany
- 2010 — Scientific Advisory Board, Neurofibromatosis II Association, Germany
- 2010 — Vice Chairman, Task Force «Neural Prosthetics» of the German Society for Biomedical Technology (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik, DGBMT in the German Engineering Association (Verband der Ingenieure, VDI)
- 2011 — Chief Editor Neurosurgery, Thieme-ProCompliance, Europe
- 2012 — Introduction of the «Modular Course for Neurosurgical Nurses» (Pflege in der Neurochirurgie, PiN), Helios, Germany
- 2013 — Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Skull Base Society (Gesellschaft für Schädelbasischirurgie, GSB)
- 2013 — Founder and Chairman, Neurofibromatosis Center (certified by ORPHANET), Erfurt, Germany
- 2014 — First skull base interventions under 3D digital microscope vision in Germany (Supervision, Visionsense), Helios Erfurt, Germany
- 2015 — Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Neurooncological Center (certified by Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft, DKG in 2016), Helios Hospital Erfurt, Germany
- 2016 — Medical advisor and name giver for the first German smartphone patient portal hello (Helios LogOn)
- 2017 — Member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Acoustic Neurinoma Association (Vereinigung Akustikusneurinom, VAN)
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